 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1901 - 190 pages
...words, disconnected, as I quote them, but really parts of one thought : — ' ' Man is a god in ruins. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. ' Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...these disorganisations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men and pleads with them to return to paradise. PROSPECTS W e foolishly think, in our days of sin, that we must court friends by compliance to the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. 'Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with... | |
 | 1895 - 466 pages
...beneath the stars ! " Ada looked down at her rose. " I believe grass is better than roses," she said. C. "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah which comes into...men, and pleads with them to return to Paradise." — Emerson. One Friday Afternoon. , By ELEANOR ROOT, Galesburg, 111. 1WAS thinking wearily of the... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...DISORDERING OF THE SENSES "We distrust and deny inwardly," Emerson said, "our sympathy with nature," but "infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." 4 Or in unmistakably Coleridgean terms, "Few adult persons can see nature. . . . The lover of nature... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with... | |
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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. 
